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    "<div class=\"contentcontainer med left\" style=\"margin-left: -50px;\">\n",
    "<dl class=\"dl-horizontal\">\n",
    "  <dt>Title</dt> <dd> Tiles Element</dd>\n",
    "  <dt>Dependencies</dt> <dd>Bokeh</dd>\n",
    "  <dt>Backends</dt> <dd><a href='./Tiles.ipynb'>Bokeh</a></dd>\n",
    "</dl>\n",
    "</div>"
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   "source": [
    "import holoviews as hv\n",
    "from holoviews import opts\n",
    "hv.extension('bokeh')"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "The ``Tiles`` element represents a so called web mapping tile source usually used for geographic plots, which fetches tiles appropriate to the current zoom level. To declare a ``Tiles`` element simply provide a URL to the tile server, a standard tile server URL has a number of templated variables which describe the location and zoom level. In the most common case that is a WMTS tile source which looks like this:\n",
    "\n",
    "    'https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/{Z}/{X}/{Y}@2x.png'\n",
    "    \n",
    "Here ``{X}``, ``{Y}`` and ``{Z}`` describe the location and zoom level of each tile. Alternative formats include bbox tile sources with ``{XMIN}``, ``{XMAX}``, ``{YMIN}``, ``{YMAX}`` variables, and quad-key tile sources with a single ``{Q}`` variable.\n",
    "\n",
    "A simple example of a WMTS tile source is the Wikipedia maps:"
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   "source": [
    "hv.Tiles('https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/{Z}/{X}/{Y}@2x.png', name=\"Wikipedia\").opts(width=600, height=550)"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "One thing to note about tile sources is that they are always defined in the [pseudo-Mercator projection](https://epsg.io/3857), which means that if you want to overlay any data on top of a tile source the values have to be expressed as eastings and northings. If you have data in another projection, e.g. latitudes and longitudes, it may make sense to use [GeoViews](http://geoviews.org/) for it to handle the projections for you.\n",
    "\n",
    "Both HoloViews and GeoViews provides a number of tile sources by default, provided by CartoDB, Stamen, OpenStreetMap, Esri and Wikipedia. These can be imported from the ``holoviews.element.tiles`` module and are provided as callable functions which return a ``Tiles`` element:"
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
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   "source": [
    "hv.element.tiles.EsriImagery().opts(width=600, height=550)"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "The full set of predefined tile sources can be accessed on the ``holoviews.element.tiles.tile_sources`` dictionary:"
   ]
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   "source": [
    "hv.Layout([ts().relabel(name) for name, ts in hv.element.tiles.tile_sources.items()]).opts(\n",
    "    opts.Tiles(xaxis=None, yaxis=None, width=225, height=225)).cols(4)"
   ]
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   "cell_type": "markdown",
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   "source": [
    "For full documentation and the available style and plot options, use ``hv.help(hv.Tiles).``"
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